On Tuesday, January 28, 2014, Ketan Maheshwari <ketancmaheshwari@gmail.com> wrote:

Is there a data type in Galaxy that identifies executables uniquely, eg. from the executable bit in the file perms or some other way?

Thanks,

Galaxy's data types are for data files - runnable tools/executables

are handled via XML tool wrappers which define their options etc.

Are you really asking about creating a datatype for a binary

executable file? Or letting users run arbitrary tools? Even the

idea of electing users run an arbitrary R script is dangerous

enough from a security point of view.

Peter